Paul wants to estimate the mean number of siblings for each student in his school. He records the number of siblings for each of 100 randomly selected students in the school. What is the parameter?

A parameter is defined as a numerical or another measurable factor that conforms a set that defines a given system.

In this case, the only parameter that we have is the number of siblings that each one of the 100 students has.

For example, in a table:

#student        #siblings.

     1                       3

     2                       1

     3                        4

      ...                       ...

In the left side, we have the "number of the student" that does not really matter, because the students are randomly selected, and at the right, we can see our only parameter in this study, that is the number of siblings that each student has.

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step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for